SmokinwithWilly

Benching Bryce for a PS QB that we cut last week will probably make Tepper smash the picture of Brady sitting on his desk.

He tried to smash a square peg into a round hole and all it left us was splinters

I think it also has to be factored in how much else has been spent to support him. It's not just the picks to get him, but an obscene amount just to try and build an offense to see if he's even serviceable as a starter. We've spent 3 years worth of picks and resources for results that would have been cut in training camp if he hadn't been an overall number 1.

Council is convening at 1:30 today. Follow up presser at 3pm followed by team BBQ at 4.

Funny that it's a play he has to extend and make a highlight one handed catch as proof he'snot doing enough. Should he have laid out for it? Yeah. But the one thing we don't see is him, or any other receiver for that matter, having balls consistently hit them in the hands in stride where they have a chance to catch and run. It's always some weird acrobatic grab or an immediate hit as soon as they snag it.

After this week do they bring back Mike White? Who cares about who we have to cut at this point. Our offense couldn't beat last years defense right now with the way Bryce is playing.

Maybe we need to convene the leadership council.

Probably could insert 10 or 15 different names we could have picked up this offseason and still say the same thing.

So here's my thing. Either the QB room was his call in which case, I don't trust him to pick toilet paper for a campground bathroom, or Tepper didn't step back and is indeed dictating the moves of this organization like many of us have been saying all along. I don't think he's stepped back at all and has doubled and even tripled down on proving his decision to draft Bryce was the correct one. My suspicion is even if Bryce is not extended or his 5th year signed, Tepper will once again mortgage the farm to trade up and prove his superiority again and draft his guy. And if what I suspect is correct, and a lowly fan like myself sees it, anyone with any actual football experience is going to see it too and stay the hell away from this franchise. I don't know why Roger Goodell and the rest of the owners punished the fans by selling the franchise to Tepper. Wasn't Super Bowl 50 and watching Cam get speared over and over to the head a big enough fug you?

I know people are out on Bryce and questioning Canales, but where is the angst towards Morgan? This is his fault. Improving the QB room is his job and the best we could do was Bryce Young and a 2 year deal for the ghost of Andy Dalton's arm. Everyone is praising his draft and FA but it's another year wasted full of disappointment by what a few of us predicted. I don't care how good the rest of his drafting skills are, if this is what he considers to be an NFL starting caliber QB and a backup caliber QB with no need to even try for improvement, we need another GM immediately.

He can't reach it?

This is David Tepper. And if Dan Morgan ever wants to have another job after he's fired in Carolina he's going to have to say it, NDA or not.

He'd have to be on the team first.

We'd end up with net better field position. Maybe.

Maybe this helps reduce his contract cost per season.

People like me are upset because at the time, it was an offer for a caliber of player that he wasn't, the FO was still refusing to admit we needed to rebuild, which we did, and we gave up all leverage in negotiating by refusing said offer of that caliber. And that doesnt even bring into play how much better of a position we could have been in using those Rams 1sts instead of our future 1st overall and DJ Moore. It was classic Fittershits.

I remember when I drank a lot. Sort of. Last Sunday. And probably tomorrow And next Sunday.

1996-97. Green Bay and Carolina in Lambeau for the NFC championship. Young franchise just whooped the snot out of an arrogant Neon Deion and even though we lost, that was a magical finish.

Someone must have spike Penix's pregame meal with that stuff you get before a colonoscopy. Only way he could poo the game that bad.

You do, but chemistry only takes you so far. Jake led his team on the biggest stage and was one bad kickoff and some taped practices away from a Lombardi. Leadership is great, but there has to be a measure of success too.

Jake wasn't even the "hold my beer I got this" guy. He always struck me as the guy that drained his whiskey glass and said "Hey yall, watch this."

Aren't you optimistic with only a 5th year option move. My prediction a month ago was 5 year, 220m with 160m guaranteed after a nice dinner with the Teppers. I'd expect 125 of that to be signing bonus locking him in for sure for the next 3 years.

2 opportunities. 2 GWD. Clutch.